Mark Niemann-Ross (MNR) is the Adobe Developer Evangelist working with 3rd party developers on the Creative Professional side of Adobe. Mainly working with developers creating plug-ins for InDesign and Illustrator, he's willing to assist with any developer in general.

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Adobe Creative Suite, InDesign and InDesign Server Product and SDK.
(This is an NDA event for Developers, Partners and Consultants, A Non-Disclosure agreement needs to be signed)

The Adobe InDesign Products SDK (Software Development Kit) includes libraries, sample code, tools, and documentation for writing C++ based plug-ins, Script or JAVA based Solutions for InDesign, InCopy or InDesign Server. The Next major upgrade of the InDesign product family release contains many new features and strategic enhancements designed specifically for developers and partners.

When Adobe launches new versions and updates of our codebase, there will always be certain areas that influence the effort for developers porting existing solutions. The scope of this effort is different for different partners based on the level of integration. Porting also gives you the opportunity to change or enhance the quality of your products.

Adobe invites you to a free briefing to help you get a better understanding of what’s’ new in the upcoming InDesign/InDesign Server and the SDK. We will focusing on new content, enhancements, changes and porting. We will also share information about the new Creative Suite SDK Project.

Many Solution partners expressed a wish to develop their business offerings and target Enterprise Companies, therefore we will this year introduce Adobe® LiveCycle® Enterprise Suite integration as a topic on the agenda.

Your hosts and presenters for the briefing will be Roger Risdal, Sr. Partner Product Manager, InDesign Products, Adobe Systems together with engineering from Developer Technologies at Adobe. Ferdinand Schwörer from movemen GmbH, one of the leading Adobe technology consultant and developer training company is presenting as well as LiveCycle System Engineers from the Enterprise team at Adobe Systems.

In some of my MAX presentations, I edited IDML files in Flexbuilder. Since a couple of folks asked for instructions on how to set Flexbuilder up to do this, I’ll post it here. It’s actually pretty simple…

IDML (InDesign markup language) is an XML representation of an InDesign document. You can export an InDesign document to IDMLM, edit the XML inside the IDML, and and the re-import into InDesign to create a modified version of the original InDesign document. I use Flexbuilder to open the IDML package, make changes, and resave.

I’ve had a fair number of questions about obtaining the High Level API
– aka “HLA”. Sad to say, it’s not available anymore. It was an
experiment in simplying the InDesign SDK, and developers that tried it
weren’t satsified. We are constantly looking for ways to make
developers more productive, so we may revisit this concept in the
future. But for now, it’s not available.

Adobe uses an automatic update mechanism to make sure that customers have access to the most recent version of software. However, this updater is not able to distinguish between the release version of InDesign, and the debug version of InDesign. You should not allow the automatic updater to update the InDesign debug version.